VLC Media Player 2.0.4

October, 18th 2012 - 21.85 MB - Open Source

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Operating System

Windows XP / Vista / Windows 7
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Author / Product

VideoLAN team / External Link
Filename

vlc-2.0.4-win32.exe
MD5 Checksum

e03f2f24bca457a35e1e26732afe4a2f

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What's new in this version:

Audio Output:
- Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
- Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
- Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
- Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
- Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged during playback on Mac OS X

Access:
- Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
- Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
- Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake

Codecs:
- Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
- Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
- Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
- Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
- Fix crashes when using hardware decoding

Demuxers:
- Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
- Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
- Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
- Support Youtube live streams

Windows:
- Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8

Qt:
- Fix media info dialog update
- Fix random/repeat preferences saving
- Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
- Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
- Fix album art display at start

Mac OS X:
- Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
- Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
- Fix menus display and behavior
- Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons, streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
- Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
- Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
- Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
- Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter

Miscellaneous:
- Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
- Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
- Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
- Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
- Codec and other 3rd party library updates
- Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
- Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
- Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
- Codecs and 3rd party libary updates

Translations:
- Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish, Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
- Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian

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